May Religious Book Club Book THE Religious Book Club has selected as its May book, "The Parables of Jesus" by George A. Buttrick, published this month by Doubleday, Doran. Other highly commended books are "How the Reformation Happened" by Hilaire Belloc, McBride; "Religious Education" by Theodore Gerald Spares, University of Chicago Press; "Preaching Values In New Translations of the New Testament" by Halford E. Luccock, Abingdon Press; "Life and I" by Gamaliel Bradford, Houghton, Mifflin; "Ringing Realities" by Oscar L. Joseph, Harper. Communications NOT A CAMPAIGN DOCUMENT Garden City, New York May 3, 1928. Editor, Publishers' Weekly: implied to our travelers and ourselves that A number of people in the trade have we published "Tammany Hall" by M. R. Werner as a campaign document for the purposes of the Republican Party. It may be of interest to some of your readers to know the exact genesis of this book. We published Frank R. Kent's "The Great Game of Politics" in 1923. This was a study of the theory of machine politics as operated by both the Democratic and Record of American Book Pro- Republican political machines in this counduction, April, 1928* try. In a discussion of the problems raised by this book, S. A. Everitt, Lyman Beecher Stowe and myself decided that it would be a fine thing to get a companion study of a single political organization in practical operation as a supplementary book to Mr. Kent's general survey. We passed this discussion on to the Editorial Department and they approached M. R. Werner with the suggestion that he write such a book about Tammany Hall. Tammany was selected for the subject because it is the oldest, most prominent and most outstanding of American political organizations. Mr. Werner was selected because of his previous achievement with human material in his book "Barnum" and his book "Brigham Young," and we believed him to be an author capable of portraying impartially and vividly the personalities and events connected with the origin and history of Tammany Hall. Mr. Werner answered that he would read on the subject and that if it interested him as a subject, he would write the book. For some weeks thereafter Mr. Werner investigated the subject and found that it gave him the opportunity to portray human beings in action which he has always sought for in his work. Mr. Werner spent two years gathering the material for this book and writing it. When there were rumors of its publication, attempts were made upon the part of individual politicians to obtain copies of the work in advance of publication, that they might use it in their campaign. The publishers refused absolutely to permit copies to be released for such a purpose. The publishers and the author wish to announce that they are not interested in advancing or retarding the progress of any political candidates and that they have attempted to issue "Tammany Hall" in a way so that it will stand on its own feet as a dramatic story and not in any way be construed as political propaganda. DANIEL LONGWELL, Changes in Price COKESBURY PRESS "The Snall Sunday School, Its Plans and Work" by HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY Bob Sherwood Broadcasting Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc. RO A GENTLE REBUKE We have been pounding away steadily for more than a year to register our name and location with the book-trade so we were heart-broken when we picked up this week's issue of the Weekly and found we were not known on Fourth Avenue. You don't mind us reminding you of the fact that we are here and that we have been on the map for a year or so and that we are growing rapidly? The only way we can make you realize it is to occasionally inject ourselves into your meditations with such a note as this. Of course, such an article in the Weekly has its serious side for us because if we are not taken seriously by the recognized trade paper to be listed among the publishers some members of the trade may be inclined to take us at that valuation. RAE D. HENKLE CO., INC. [We can only, as Christopher Morley once said, make a feeble gesture of discomfiture.-ED.] Obituary Note CLIVE MECKLEM CLIVE MECKLEм, general manager of Brentano's, Inc., died at his home in New York City on May 2, 1928. He was born in 1865 at Nyack, New York, and spent the early part of his life in Newburgh, New York. In September, 1898, a year before the incorporation of the firm, Mr. Mecklem was Assistant Treasurer of Brentano's. At the time of his death he was a Director, General Manager and Treasurer. OBERT SHERWOOD, former president of the New York Booksellers' League, is broadcasting regularly thru WJZ at 7:30 on Fridays, beginning May 4th. Mr. Sherwood was with Barnum's circus as a clown, and his book on circus life was successfully published by the BobbsMerrill Company. He is now seventytwo years of age. Personal Notes HEYWOOD BROUN, daily columnist in the New York World and author of a number of books, is no longer writing his column for the World. On May 4 an item at the head of the space usually occupied by "It Seems to Me" read; "The World has decided to dispense with the services of Heywood Broun. His disloyalty to this paper makes any further association impossible." This move is generally understood to have been caused by Broun's weekly contribution to the May 9 Nation, an article on the absence of a liberal newspaper in this country in which he discussed the World. EUGENE SOMMER, of the Sather Gate Book Shop, sailed on the Malolo on May 5th for a month's vacation in Honolulu. Business Notes CHICAGO, ILL.-The Fullerton Gift Shop at 3317 Fullerton Ave. has opened a circulating library. Hattie Olsen is the owner. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.-On May 1st Wm. B. Eerdmans opened a new book store in the new Grand Rapids Trust Building. NEW YORK CITY.-The Globus Press, a new publishing house, has been started at 315 Second Ave. The Weekly Record of New Publications The entry is transcribed from title page when the book is sent for record. Prices are added except when not supplied by publisher or obtainable only on specific request, in which case word "apply" is used. When not specified the binding is "cloth." Imprint date or best available date, preferably copyright date in bracket, is always stated, except when imprint date and copyright date agree and are of the current year, in which case only "c" is used. No ascertainable date is designated thus: [n.d.]. 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